Police facility project approved

January 20, 2006|By Margie Ritchie

ORLAND PARK — The Village Board this week approved a budget for a new 58,000-square-foot police facility that is expected to be up and running by next January.

The $15.5 million budget is about $1 million more than the village had planned to spend to transform the former Consolidated Tile building at 15100 Ravinia Ave. into a state-of-the-art police facility.

The village acquired the property last year and plans to nearly triple its size and transform the existing structure into an environmentally friendly structure consistent with the surrounding village buildings, according to the plans.

The budget includes a construction guaranteed maximum price contract of $12,547,150 with Wood Dale-based George Sollitt Construction Co.

Police Chief Tim McCarthy said the new building will be larger than what the department currently needs.